firefox crash with user-agent switcher and www.tg4.ie

Bug #197462 reported by Gavin McCullagh
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

As TG4's webtv refuses non-windows browsers, and reports said that it worked with Konqueror if you switched the user agent

http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2008-March/097051.html

I set up the user-agent switcher on firefox on ubuntu gutsy, imported the long list of agents,

http://techpatterns.com/downloads/firefox/useragentswitcher.xml

switched to Netscape 4.8/WinXP and went back to www.tg4.ie. Firefox segfaults for me regular as clockwork if I do this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 1 23:18:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.12+2nobinonly+2-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux bambi 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh) wrote :
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Matthew Tighe (tighem) wrote :

Since that extension is not provided as part of the Ubuntu distribution, you would most likely be better off reporting this to the developer of the plugin. Have you tried another windows user agent? There must a few of them in the list.

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Invalid
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